Medicine: Flu Shots: Who & When

U.S. manufacturers of vaccine against Asian influenza did better than
they had expected: last week, well ahead of schedule, two companies
turned out half a million shots and (with an eye to public relations)
allocated most of the vaccine to meet civilian demand. Philadelphia's
National Drug Co. was ready with 260,000 straight anti-Asian shots,
plus 60,000 shots of polyvalent vaccine, compounded for use against
three types of flu recently current, including the Asian. Lederle
Laboratories of Pearl River, N.Y. had churned out 180,000 doses, set
aside half for the armed forces (which will do their own testing, thus
hold up distribution...